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1981 / Society & public life
World Food Day — 23c
World Food Day
Denomination23c
Issue date1981-10-16
The story behind the issue
Two stamps mark the first World Food Day.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta General Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- Maltese pound / lira · decimal
- Designer
- Richard J. Caruana
- Printer
- Printex Limited, Malta
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp dimensions
- 27 × 33 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 13.75
- Watermark
- Maltese crosses, sideways
- Paper
- Chalk surfaced
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
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